<p>@gildedmushroom, I’m sorry! But even if your CR doesn’t go up, your score is still amazing=] I would KILL for a 2350. I got 2190 in November lol.</p>
<p>idk that ironic tone was too weird for me. i put something that had to do with the mother and got it completely wrong.</p>
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This.
You’re only twisting the definition into its most extreme connotation to fit your criticism. Look at the word “self-satisfied;” it means satisfied with oneself.</p>
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<p>use BB code.</p>
<p>Why was it indelible instead of ineffable?</p>
<p>Haha thanks, massgirl92. Goodluck to you on your January scores</p>
<p>what was the indelible question?
performed or directed?</p>
<p>@Seahawks In my experience the answers are pretty much always on the surface and don’t really require in-depth analysis of the text.</p>
<p>@wavegate It had to do with a Nutcracker performance being really amazing and ____ to the children watching it? I think that’s what it was?</p>
<p>I hate Critical Reading. <em>whines</em></p>
<p>Can anyone describe what the experimental section was? I hope it’s the one that I zoned out on.</p>
<p>HEY GUYS: to end the agony i found the g-ma passage
[Tell</a> It Slant|“The Need to Say It”](<a href=“http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/00725127/student_view0/additional_essays-999/_the_need_to_say_it_.html]Tell”>http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/00725127/student_view0/additional_essays-999/_the_need_to_say_it_.html)</p>
<p>As for indelible, the latter part of the sentence said something like “----: it left an impression that the kids would never forget.” This matches the definition of indelible, while ineffable means a feeling that can’t be described.</p>
<p>what’s the answer to the nutcracker (indelible) question? i put indelible, but i didn’t know what it meant</p>
<p>I remembered indelible from the phrase “indelible ink”</p>
<p>@carpdime: Sure maybe she was having fun…but was she complacent, smug, vain, puffed-up? If it was satisfied I would have doubted my answer, but since they said self satisfied, it kinda works. Shes writing to an audience and is aware of herself IMO</p>
<p>but I agree with @lucid. The question itself was near the end of section and the hardness usually goes in order. Since it was near the end, it would need the deeper. I agree with the idea that CR is tipped unfairly. W/E</p>
<p>and yeah no point really debating. I just felt there was 5x more evidence to support conscientious than there was to support happy/smug</p>
<p>Darn! I thought indelible was unable to percieve and ineffable was unforgettable. NOOO!</p>
<p>Although 141421356 gives a fairly sound explanation for “conscientious” in post 601, he/she is neglecting two things:</p>
<p>1) the LITERAL definition of “self-satisfied” is, very simply, “feeling or showing satisfaction with oneself or one’s accomplishments,” not “smug” or “arrogant”</p>
<p>2) there was absolutely a bunch of literal, black and white evidence in the passage for self-satisfied. The author remarked that she easily (“breezily”) gave up her persona to assume the grandma’s even though she knew what she was doing was not right or moral (she refers to writing negatively about her mom as “treachery”). She has absolutely no hesitation about doing something that could be considered deception; she is actually PROUD of doing so! This alone would seem to point towards “self-satisfied” and would obviously put a large stake in the heart of “conscientious,” at least the “moral/scrupulous” meaning of it. As for its other meaning- “meticulous”- for those of you focused on that latter definition and justifying it by saying that she really paid attention to details in her deception, you should stop and consider what the true purpose of that paragraph was in the development of the passage. Was it to demonstrate how careful the author was, how well she paid attention to details? Or was it to show how happy she was to abandon her own life and write somewhat creatively (remember that at one point, she refers to one of her anecdotes as an “aria,” defined as “a striking solo performance”) about her grandmother’s?</p>
<p>Something to think about.</p>
<p>Thanks for finding the passage!
Here is the offending section:</p>
<p>Of course, the protagonist of the hockey tale was not “my brother.” He was “my grandson.” I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s. I complained about my hip joint, I bemoaned the rising cost of hamburger, I even touched on the loneliness of old age, and hinted at the inattention of my son’s wife (that is, my own mother who was next door, oblivious to treachery).</p>
<p>Do what you will with it.</p>
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That’s where your reasoning is wrong. We have NO IDEA as to the difficulty as the problems are in the order of the passage. In my opinion, I said smug, since there were already many hard questions previously…</p>
<p>Of course, the protagonist of the hockey tale was not “my brother.” He was “my grandson.” I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s. I complained about my hip joint, I bemoaned the rising cost of hamburger, I even touched on the loneliness of old age, and hinted at the inattention of my son’s wife (that is, my own mother who was next door, oblivious to treachery).</p>
<p>im using conscientious in that it means deliberation… she wrote deliberately… though the last sentence does feel satisfactory</p>
<p>also, im pretty sure only math and writing and vocab is in the order of difficulty</p>
<p>“I took over her life in prose.** Somewhere along the line, though, she decided to take full possession of her sign-off**. She asked me to show her how to write “Love” so she could add it to “Teresa” in her own hand. She practiced the new word many times on scratch paper before she allowed herself to commit it to the bottom of a letter.”</p>
<p>This proves my early point on the question referring to this particular piece of the passage (the one about why she wants to learn how to write love).</p>
<p>Here is the passage concerning the self-satisfied/conscientious debate.</p>
<p>“Of course, the protagonist of the hockey tale was not “my brother.” He was “my grandson.” I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s. I complained about my hip joint, I bemoaned the rising cost of hamburger, I even touched on the loneliness of old age, and hinted at the inattention of my son’s wife (that is, my own mother who was next door, oblivious to treachery).”</p>
<p>I bolded what I believed I thought as part of my evidence for choosing self-satisfied.</p>